BREAKING NEWS: Castillo To Resign

Oregon's superintendent of public instruction, Susan Castillo, says she is resigning to take a job July 1 with a nonprofit organization.

She is the last person to hold the job as an elected statewide official. That's a result of changes pushed by Gov. John Kitzhaber and approved this year by the Legislature to consolidate authority over education under a board named by the governor.

Castillo, a Democrat, is a former legislator and television journalist who was elected three times to the job.

She released a statement Monday that said she will become regional vice president of an organization called Project Lead The Way, which is involved in science and technical education.